Fisheries (Mackerel) Rules 2019

In these rules – Act means the Living Marine Resources Management Act 1995; bycatch means all species of scalefish other than mackerel;Commonwealth authority means any licence, permit, right or other authority relating to a specific fishery granted under the Commonwealth Act; fishing trip means a trip undertaken for fishing, commencing on the departure from a port, port of landing or authorised mooring and ending on the return to a port, port of landing or authorised mooring;Grade 1 penalty means the penalty specified in regulation 5 of the Penalty Regulations;Grade 2 penalty means the penalty specified in regulation 6 of the Penalty Regulations;Grade 3 penalty means the penalty specified in regulation 7 of the Penalty Regulations; mackerel means – fish of the species Emmelichthys nitidus (commonly known as redbait); and fish of the species Scomber australasicus (commonly known as blue mackerel); and fish of the genus Trachurus including –Trachurus declivis (commonly known as common jack mackerel); andTrachurus murphyi (commonly known as Peruvian jack mackerel); andTrachurus novaezelandiae (commonly known as yellowtail scad); mackerel fishing licence means – a fishing licence (mackerel A); or a fishing licence (mackerel B); mackerel zone means – all the State waters east of the line of longitude 146 o 30' East (known as the eastern mackerel zone); and all the State waters west of the line of longitude 146 o 30' East (known as the western mackerel zone); market value– see rule 16; open season– see rule 12;Penalty Regulations means the Fisheries (Penalties) Regulations 2011; purse seine net has the same meaning as in the Fisheries (Scalefish) Rules 2015; reporting service means a reporting service approved under rule 20; scalefish has the same meaning as in the Fisheries (Scalefish) Rules 2015; shark refuge area means a shark refuge area specified in Schedule 1; site of unloading, of mackerel, means – the first point where the mackerel or a container containing the mackerel – is unloaded; or makes contact with a jetty or artificial extension of land; or any other place determined by the Secretary; unloading means the act of taking mackerel onto land, or causing or permitting mackerel to be taken onto land, from a fishing vessel or State waters.

In these rules, a reference to a shark refuge area by name is a reference to the shark refuge area so named in column 2 (and as described in column 3) of the table in Schedule 1;

In these rules, unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to a body of waters or a region, by name, is a reference to the body of waters or region so named as defined in Schedule 2 to the Fisheries (Scalefish) Rules 2015.